Biology:Ideopsis gaura
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Short description: Species of butterfly
| Smaller wood nymph | |
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| Ideopsis gaura perakana | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Ideopsis |
| Species: | I. gaura
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| Binomial name | |
| Ideopsis gaura (Horsfield, [1829])
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| Subspecies | |
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Many, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Idea diardi Vollenhoven, 1860 | |
Ideopsis gaura, the smaller wood nymph, is a species of nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is found in Southeast Asia.
Larvae feed on Melodinus especially M. laevigatus.
Adults are mimicked by Graphium delessertii and Cyclosia pieridoides.[1]
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically:[2]
- I. g. anapina Semper, 1892
- I. g. anapis (C. & R. Felder, 1861)
- I. g. bracara Fruhstofer, 1910
- I. g. canlaonii Jumalon, 1971
- I. g. costalis (Moore, 1883)
- I. g. daos (Boisduval, [1836])
- I. g. eudora (Gray, 1846)
- I. g. gaura (Horsfield, [1829])
- I. g. glaphyra Moore, 1883
- I. g. kajangensis Okubo, 1983
- I. g. lingana Fruhstorfer, 1910
- I. g. natunensi]]s Fruhstorfer, 1910
- I. g. nigrocostalis Hagen, 1902
- I. g. messala Fruhstorfer, 1910
- I. g. palawana Fruhstorfer, 1910
- I. g. perakana Fruhstorfer, 1899
- I. g. pseudocostalis van Eecke, 1914
References
- ↑ "Down Memory Lane - Smaller Wood Nymph". http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2013/07/down-memory-lane-smaller-wood-nymph.html. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
- ↑ "Ideopsis Horsfield, 1857" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Wikidata ☰ Q613550 entry
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